Brain injury is a complex health issue. No other organization in the country has invested more resources and expertise into understanding how to prevent, diagnose and treat the consequences of traumatic brain injury than the Department of Defense. For those who are injured, we are committed to ensuring they receive the best possible care from our military providers and the broader civilian community.
Although the “D” would have you believe otherwise, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not a one-size-fits-all medical condition.
Margo Batsie, member services coordinator at the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, shared an egregious example of a psychiatric system failure when she testified before the state Committee on Labor Commerce, Research and Economic Development on April 18.
Two veterans are conquering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but they don’t want to fight it alone. They have started “Mind Over Matter,” an organization to help other veterans and are holding an event this weekend to get the word out.
Post traumatic stress disorder is a fairly new diagnosis, yet thousands of veterans returning from war every year are being diagnosed with the disorder. An alternative treatment the NEWS CENTER found is not currently being covered by Veterans Affairs.
Mental health advocates hitched a ride on the gun control wagon. Now the wagon is stuck.
When faced with impossible circumstances beyond their control, animals, including humans, often hunker down as they develop sleep or eating disorders, ulcers, and other physical manifestations of depression. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 18 show that the same kind of thing happens to flies.
According to Google (and a team of researchers from the University of Southern California, Harvard and Johns Hopkins) mental illnesses — such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and anorexia — are far more seasonal than we think.
Wars do awful things to bodies, and Maj. Roger Rodriguez had been a frequent witness. The veteran flight nurse had five post-Sept. 11 wartime deployments under his belt, every one of them spent retrieving the torn and broken bodies of U.S. troops from battlefields and field hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Incidents of violence and erratic behavior have brought the importance of mental health services to the forefront.